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This volume presents results of comparative country-based research that sought to answer a seemingly simple but puzzling question: why is there so little industry in Africa? It brings together detailed country case studies of industrial policies and industrialisation outcomes in eleven countries, conducted by teams of national researchers in partnership with international experts on industrial development - providing analysis of the contemporary industrialisation experience in low-income Africa.

Manufacturing industries --- Industrialization --- Industries --- Manufactures --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Africa. --- Asia. --- Developing countries. --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- natural resources --- structural transformation --- economic growth --- africa --- industrial development --- Foreign direct investment --- Gross domestic product --- Secondary sector of the economy

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This work examines how African policy makers might develop better coordination between the public and private sectors to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation, and to design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them.

Industrial policy --- policy formulation --- structural transformation --- africa --- industrial development --- public and private sectors --- industrial policy --- Special economic zone

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What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth and development, this volume provides historical accounts on developing lessons. It covers the Nordics, Japan, Ireland, and Switzerland, and three European transition countries.

Economic development. --- Developed countries. --- Developing countries. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Emerging nations --- Fourth World --- Global South --- LDC's --- Least developed countries --- Less developed countries --- Newly industrialized countries --- Newly industrializing countries --- NICs (Newly industrialized countries) --- Third World --- Underdeveloped areas --- Underdeveloped countries --- Advanced countries --- Advanced nations --- Developed nations --- Economically advanced countries --- Economically advanced nations --- First World --- Industrial countries --- Industrial nations --- Industrial societies --- Industrialized countries --- Industrialized nations --- Western countries --- Economic development --- E-books

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This graduate text provides a review of the major approaches employed for estimating poverty lines and how poverty is estimated in practice.

Poor --- Poverty --- Well-being --- Measurement. --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Welfare (Personal well-being) --- Wellbeing --- Quality of life --- Happiness --- Health --- household surveys --- poverty analysis --- poverty --- developing countries --- wellbeing --- Calorie --- Consumption (economics) --- Famine --- Foreign object damage --- Revealed preference --- Rural area --- Sanitation --- Urban area

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The collapse of central planning was hailed as evidence of the economic and moral superiority of capitalism over any possible alternative. The essays in this book challenge that claim. The case for more democratic forms of enterprise management is considered from a variety of viewpoints. One chapter deals with the philosophical justification for enterprise democracy. The remaining chapters are devoted to the question of efficiency, which has been central to economic debates about ownership and control. The orthodox belief amongst economists is that any shift to more democratic forms of ent

Management --- Competition. --- Industrial efficiency. --- Democracy. --- Employee participation.